As far as CGI characters go, I can think of few that were able to surpass Pirates’ Jones in terms of astonishingly convincing effects. How they managed to achieve it as early as 2006 is beyond me, though I imagine Disney spared no expense when funding the movie.

I see these scenes and imagine a scenario where the veteran CGI guys overlook this and a young introvert intern goes “but with the force of the water, DJ’s hat should have swept away, right?” And the veteran dudes are like, “hmmm….yeah…i guess we can rework this. Nice catch buddy! How’d you like a permanent job?” And the intern all happy goes home and tells his family and they all go out for a drink.

Slightly off topic in the other direction… there are things about the two Davy Jones POTC movies which are amazingly well done and then there is the writing…There’s a scene in the third film where all the major characters are pointing pistols at each other and their motivations are so sloppily written that I can barely summarize it better than “these characters are constantly betraying each other, but then do a 180 seemingly for no reason and seem to want to convey genuine concern for each other”

Anyway, this moment when they are all pointing guns at each other comes right after the Pearl has been flipped upside-down. Barbosa, Legolas, Bend-it-like-Beckam, Depp, and maybe another character all each pointing two guns at other characters and arguing their nonesense about who’s in charge when suddenly the discussion breaks down and they all pull their triggers on each other… pointed at the faces of the people which just scenes before and after the kinda imply closeness. The “joke” is that all the pistols are water-logged and can’t fire.

Hold the fucking phone… think about this for a second. The movie makes it comedy because none of the pistols work, but literally every character in that scene had the intention of putting a bullet through the skull of two other characters. The characters don’t know the guns will misfire. They literally would have murdered at least half of the main characters in that scene.

And of course, later in the movie Barbosa marries Legolas to Beckham and its like nothing and Depp and Beckham share yet another “ohhhh youuu” moment.